The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen.
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The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.Michael Parmly
We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.
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There's recognition of how totalitarian this society is and who's going to benefit from that. Yes, American people would benefit from contact with Cuban cultural groups, but those cultural groups are so much creatures of the state.
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But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.
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